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talk of the town, the
Idioms and Phrases
A subject of considerable gossip, as in Turning up drunk at the debutante ball will certainly make you the talk of the town . Already mentioned in two Latin sources, this expression surfaced in English in the mid-1600s.Example Sentences
Itâs the tabloid talk of the town, the way Brooke Shieldsâs virginity was in the 1980s.
However, according to Scott Schechter in Judy Garland: The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Legend, neither this failed deal nor the subsequent fight with Deans is necessarily the second cause of Judyâs disastrous performance at the Talk of the Town, the way itâs suggested in the film.
You could be forgiven for thinking that it was the end of an era for the plucky start-up founder in London; whilst lean methodologies, bootstrapping and no shortage of funding opportunities were once the talk of the town, the focus is now likely to shift towards Series A, B and C rounds winning seven or eight figure sums, public listings, job creation and healthy balance sheets.
But progress was in the air, new enterprises, new discoveries were the talk of the town, the interest on the five per cents. had been reduced to four, and in a rare moment of rashness, he had taken a hint dropped by Ovington, had ventured, and won.
"They were the talk of the town," the Storm's Swin Cash said of the Dream.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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